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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1949)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13,' 1949 PACE TWO HERALD ANO NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Chamber Directors Go Record As Opposed To Forest Practices Act fhambrr nf commerce dlrccUri went on record today opposed l the forest practices act Si. IK, now before rontreaa after Introduc tion by Senator Clinton Anderson of New Meitro former secret ry of SfTtrulture. Action by the directors wu taken after a atndy of the measure by (he Industrial development committee In meetinf with men interested la the forest product Industries here. It was decided to Inform the Unit ed Bt-atc chamber of commerce, cattlemen's a&Aociations, real estate boards, other chambers and various Contractors To Furnish Farm Labor TULELAKE, July 13 A derision to engage three contractors to brine In 300 tingle male laborers each (or the Tulelake crop harvest this Tear, wu reached by the Tulelake Grow ers association board of directors at a meeting held Tuesday night. No decision on wage scale was msde. Growers are holding off a little longer to get a better new of crop prospects. Two of the contractors have named with the third, either ' or Mexican, to be selected later. Clarence Hulett, colored contractor from Woodland who "worked In the area last year and proved himself with the growers" will hire 300 single men and maintain a mesa hall for their convenience. Huleit has Indi cated that he will hire colored labor. Preston C. Marshall white, with two colored sub-contractors. George Johnson and E. Hardy, will hire an additional 300 single men and main tain a messhall. This tno comes recommended from the Bakersfield area. They always operate together and hire mostly white help and have worked fcr large ranching concerns In the Imperial valley. W. J. Currier, manager of the growers' association, said "We will need all the local men we can get for the harvest this year. The camp will be operated this i year for the tingle laborers. The decision to use single men In place ' Ol IBmillca wus jni wm rwuuucii , . . . . . . wnen Darracas ouuauigs um iw accommodations last year were I turned over to homesteader, this ; year Currier said. i A trailer camp will also be main- j Ulned with accommodations for I saniury facilities and hot and cold 1 thowers for 100 trailer parties to be provided. U necessary a tent camp will a'ui be set uo Tent olatformt Will be available and utilities will be furnished but tents must be pro vided by workers. Members present at the directors' meeting were Manager W. J. Cur rier.. President Sam Anderson. Ed Osborne. Ed Duckrtt. El don Larson, Ivan Rose and Marvin Thomas. Four other members also tat In on the meeting. They were Chet Ma'n. James Lash. Dave Bridges and Dan Crawford 8r. New Racket In Germany Uncovered FRANKFURT. Germany. July 11 American officials reported to day they have uncovered a gift par cel racket Involving the shipment nf huge quantities of goods from the United States to phony char itable groups In Germany. The United States army, three military government agencies and German customs officials have launched a drive to crack the racket U. S. customs officials said coffee, cigarettes, cocoa, chocolate, nylons, drugs are cloth are being shipped to the U. 8. occupation lone as gift parcels and then resold on the black market. Regulations permit char itable groups to import bulk ship ments duty-free- More than 23 million yovngsters from five to 17 are enrolled In U. 8. public schools. HERE TODAY' f DOORS OPEN :lt -;-J tutsN toaist HATwaso rimon riMO AgMINDAIIZ M CS.S WiM tlSTt Cealk groups of the Ktsmath chamber's definite stand against th act. Mator basis of the chamber's ac tion was a belief that the act would bring too great extension of federal control over all ftirest lands. Manager Charles Stark of the chain her told ef his trip la Saw Franrlsre Sunday an the Shasta Davlight streamliner and the en thusiastic reception given Klam ath's special events In connection with the opening ( the new tr train service. Stark said that a special edition of The Herald and News, which was distributed free to all passengers, created a sensation. The edition, featuring a red streamer line an nouncing the arrival of the neat train, carried historical lnlorniallcm about Klamath railroading as well as a full description of the new train and the faster service through here. John Dunn af the Junior chamber f commerce reported that the Jan tor chamber regatta this year broke nearly even financially, and enough money may still come In la rover a r present deficit of S3. 6 per rent of those regalia paid admission. faming to do so. The chamber went on record ; praising the Southern Pacific com- i pany for long record of operation in ' this area without accidental death to passengers. i Nudists Don't j Like Planes SEATTLE, July 13 F NuduU apparently dislike airplanes. i A small airplane flown by Leon ard Self, with John Hood as paa- 1 senger. landed at an airport near Issaquah yesterday with two bullet holes from underneath near the passenger s seat. Ab Davis, ro-pro-pnetor of the Issaquah Sky Ranch reported today. The holes were about six inches anart. he said in his romnlaint to the .h.ritr. nffi. t The shots sent the aerial ob- ' servers winging away as they flew about 1300 feet over Tiger moun- 1 tain. There's nudist camp on prl- 1 rate property on the mountain side, Sheriff s Deputy E. D. iDtcki ; Bardrn won the assignment to look 1 Into the matter, with ground opera- i tiom. 1 r . id ncr i . .. . . - .j . SALEM. July 13 iv Ed Ridder of , Sherwood will be supenmendent of , the twine division of the Oregon Stata fair. September to li. ''r Manaer Leo Spiubart also "mI Clarence Simmons. Silverton. " hfd the beef cattle competition, J- J- Thompson, Salem, will be sheep "i""""'- All three men held the same Jobs last year. FUNNY "lt' that Jockey ij;ain!M Continuoui Doily FINAL SHOWING TONIGHT' The Last of Our Current Series of Oatatanding Foreign Films U'alrb for the Next Series .aaslaBlaBlaBlaBBBlaBBBgssssssssBBBBBBBaB SuittfadU " """"" "" "" , Robert Myrnai TOONERVILLE FOLKS I Flood -Season y L, ' ZLvXi ' z, Streamliner Appreciates "Gag" Paper Passengers aboard Sunday's Shasta Daylight streamline trains "got a b:g bang ' out of The Herald and Neas special railroad edition and the San Francisco News thought II a "clever scoop" and printed a pic ture of two top Southern Pacific officials persuing the "extra" aboard the southbound train Sunday. Saturday's regular edition of the H and N was put cut with a mock . , sp . mnl. ,h pictures and stories. The papers were distributed free : to the passengers of both the soutn ! and northbound trains when they pulled into the Kalamath Falls sta '. uoa Sunday. The lead story on the front page. taking off from a huge red headline stated that "five m.nutea ago the new Shssts Daylight Dulled into the : KJamatH rails station ..." Emmett ntrpatrtck. editor of the SP bulletin, said lhat the -folks ; aboard got big bang oul of it. ' either from recogninng the ruteness ' of the fag. or in many cases, from genuine surprise that a newspaper could be printed and distributed so "?..' iwo ffi,i.i. .i I " . n ih. a m v... -,,.,IM ... w. - Kn..ws the special edition were Vice . Preaid'tu. C. E. Peterson and D. J-' PLEASE! ' HOLYHEAD. Wales, July 1J i So severe la the drought on tha Island of Angelesey that country Inns now show this sign: "No water, please lake sods with your whiskey." BUSINESS T L From 1:30 p. m. rismuceio TAGLIAVirJI O'Dwyer To Run i For Reelection i NFW YORK, July 13 i-Mayor ! William O'Dwyer announced today that he Mill run for reelection. The mavor Mid at a news con ference: I deem it my duty In the best interests of the city to run for reelection." The announcement mine a day after the democratic mayor con ferred with President Truman in Washington and Just after Manhat tan District At tomey Prank S, Ho an had been promised the nom ii.ation by three of the city s fiv democratic leaders. Public Power Fight Opens WASHINGTON. July 13 1 After talking with President Tru man today. Rep. Kirwan iD-Ohloi announced he will lead a fight to restore drastic cuts made by a senate committee yesterday In funds for the administration s pub- ur power program. The senate appropriations corn- muw oted by the . . , . . 1 J, V i . 1 lhe M"'- nd F,r . " K,r nJ " chairman of the house subcommittee which handled the Interior department appropri ations bill, carrying the Items, will conference group whose Job is to , Htffn- Iron out diiierencea iron ouv auirrvncea oriween me two branches. imo the bill In conference (or thavra will be no bill.'' Kirwan ; told a reporter as he left the White House. i He said - the sens'e committee 'action 'just akorit scuttled the pub lic power program 'Firemen Extinguish Two Small Fires ! Cltv firemen were called out on two fires Tuesdsy. one a grass fire and the other a small blaze In a sawdust pile. No damage was done bv the grass fire at Siskiyou and Addison. The call came In to the fire station at 6 3S p. m. Fire in a sawdust pile at 8. 6'h and Broad near the Oreat Northern depot, was soon extinguished with out damage. Firemen answered tht alarm at 9:39 p. m. Firemen Answer House Unit Call The city fire department answered a call at 11:54 a m. today, to the Shasta View housing unit. The fire in a unit on Chilnquln street was started fiom an electric plate to near the window curtains. It was quickly put out with small damage caused. v m J.;. " ajasW- -W ttV -r 1 extra! DGa KnnNy I" Chorli Spivok Orch w-ai."??; if . I -T SS- V 'w1 1 II . I I gaaaw-AWW . V y v. I eV 1 7 k 1 B"aiL. ft ar- a. I T sT: I. ? im eat m a . .... . mm U I " " - - . -sp i n mt uiapaaj i m -aaaaaaaaas s vsson jpivna yrcn. ini l AMtKlwA J Man Takes Own Life On Street Corner William Douglas Whitney, about 3.1. took his mn Ufa late Tuesday efternixui at the comer of lltii and Walnut with a .33 calibre ride pur chased two minuir earlier. City police reixirlrd Whitney shot himself In the right temple at approximately 4. .10. and died at Klamath Valley hospital an hour and a half later. The man, unknown in Klamath Palls, went Into the Western Auto Supply store at llih and Waliv.it and purchased the rifle and a btx of .32-ralibre short shells. He signed the name of Jack Laughlln. Hiltsbnro, Ore . at the time 01 pur chase. Then, according to police recon struction, he walked outside the store building and around the corner I on 11th and shot himself. E. T. Eckel ot Pasadena was first on the scene after ;he shot and (mind Whitney on the sidewalk, still alive. He went into the statr highway department office and had police and Kalrr s ambulance called Police said Witney s home ad dress probably was route 3. H1II1 biro. and that his wlte was be lieved to reside at IM3 Ureen street. San Francisco. His mother and sister are brlieved to live In Port land. This morning the man's car was found parked on Pine between th and 9th. The body Is at Wards funeral home. Theft Suspect . Held Here Bruce Singer Corw in. 1. of Bui bank. Cslif .. was brought down from Eugene lat night and placed I in the county Jail to face a charge 1 of burglary. He was arrested by Eugene police and turned over to Deputy Sheriff Marlon Barnes who was coming 1 back to Klamaih Falls from a trip 1 to Salem. Cora m Is accused of breaking In-! to an apartment at J21 Spring July 3 and stealing a quantity of clothing, ' gold watch chain and suitcase be- , longing to D. L. Masset. The stolen j articles were recovered in Eugene. Coram, city police said, is alio wanted for escape from Jail in Los Angeles. ' Po ! !r s si 1 1 m route JCCKing Oklahoma Man City police are trying to locate Calvin Cs-per, brlieved to be in Klamath Fails, to deliver a message from his mother, Mrs. Frank Cas per of Tonkawa. Okla. Casper formerly resided at JlJO's Herbert and worked at a box fac tory, his mother wrote. She wants to tell him his little buy Is seri ously 111. Social Hygiene Conference Held MONMOUTH, July 13 i,r Social hygiene educators conferred here yesterday with officers of the E C Brown trust of Portland on work of the organization. Trust Director Curtis Avery e plained to the audience of about 900 how the trust-sponsored film 'Hu man Orowth" was produced for presentation to school children. NAMED OREGON CITY. July 13 iTi Two grade school pnncipsls were nsmed by the school board here last night. Glen Waggoner, principal of the Stayton grade school for two years and formerly West Salem grade principal, was named principal of Oregon City's Mt. Pleasant school. Claire Rasmussen. Wet Linn, was nsmed principal of Barclay grade school. Schools open here September 9. a,"'. "'a.- yf i' "HEART TROUBLES" - 'THIS IS AMERICA" Glen Waggoner, principal of the IT I IA I k II 1 I T 'L'litiLWtl'l tlhli f 1 1 1 - " i it mil all v - w r - - hi mat jjltw . Total income of US Life Insur- )HV - j . JhL, f ttZ ' S7&imJz t ,ance companies In 1947 was more ' afv V , ZfTk. W gJ? 477Y)t I . than nine billion dollars. lHaxssestirek L . VaVV I ' L .-. -0 1. taw- "V- ST .Laj av r I EJBT w a 1 1 A awasaesm m w ' m it BW a. m aSBW as mm mm -mmr .llliav WS CARNIVAL I 1 v W sJ cixm v rv w wwnct MTMmvint or "It wu terrible blow to th tent up tht despises J Driver Drowned j By Heavy Truck LOS ANOFI.E3. July 13 in I Truckdrlver Leo Trutnpow kl, 3.S. was drowned while cranking his ruck. In forward gear. It shot ahead, draped Trumpowkl over the hood and whirled aenvva the buvy coast highway Monday, narrowly missing ottier cars. The trurk nosed uver In a slough and pinned Trumpow skt under the watrr level. Police rescue squads arrived In 10 minutes but Triimpuwskl wsa dead. I'se the Want Ads forwuirk Retulul AiilAfeiefe:. 1 ft rlAMIir MOVIE w - l m mm . . wr-tTi-iiaiif w v..utv i 'Xins' ' V ..littmmj? ,-JZFZj LjS&Sssb- l,WrS I I tit Jt TfFf 1 r mW .fVVi MU)t"-"I w I Bv Dick Turner little woman when I got to do housework 1" (Women's Softball League To Meet Tile women s Softball Irsgue wit' i meet lliursday night at 1 o'clock in the council chambers at the city hall. All women who wuh to enter league play are urged to attend this meeting. A new way to serve potatoes Is to peel them and cut them Into psiier Ihin alirra, then overlap the slices In rows in a baking diih that has been lightly buttered. Bruh the po tatoes wuh melted butler, sprinkle lightly with salt and paprika and bake In a hot oven until the slices are a golden brown on top. jini OF Anderson Estate Set At $16,000 The estate of the late R. II. An drraiui, oflried for probate at tht counly clerks office, la tentatively valued at Sie.000 In teal and per sonal property. AiidrrMin was killed In an auto, mobile accident June 11. Prubaie records Indicate Anderson also poa srssrd Jointly. held properly not sulilnt to pmliate. He left a will dated April 6. I Will, In winch his widow, Mrs. Msa An. derMin. and two daughters, Mis. Thlrsa IX-Cew of Klalliulh falls snj Mrs. Hrlru (loerknrr ol Halriu, writ llated as heirs. The estate of the late llrury Alilra. Hllrllrv. Is estimated at 1.1000. Ha died June 36. Listed aa heirs art two bruttirrs. Hart Hhellry of llralty and ll'il Hlisllry ol Dorria. a sioi, tela O Mally of Han Jose. Calif , and a mere and nephew. A tentative value of about llj.so has been placed on the estate nf William A. I'lliue. who died Jims 3D at Itunanra without a will. 11, s aoie heir is Mary Mane Ihalsea, daughter, of Uoiiatire. The estale of Arthur llalbeit Spallglrr, who died IntrMate Juna S. Is tentatively set at ISOO. He lr!i a wife and four rhlldtru. Efforts Mode To Refloat Ship POINTAIKIfF.IIO. Calif. J,S. j 13 it-The roaM guard said in other drsperale eftoit will he made todav to refloat the (Ireek freigh ter, loantils (I Kuluku'iilla, hard aground em! leaking badly the miles north of hete Efforts to refloat Hie 4:'J-foof vev. rl. now lilting at 30 drgrrra in Uia "Orevcyard of the Pscllli-." at tush , tide lat night arte futile, the roait guard said The IS0-lon craft ran into a sandbar 3 y nl ofutiuie Sunday. brfote broiling tomato halves, sprinkle thrm with finely rruvhrd cracker rrumbs that have been ,misrd well wi'h nielird butter or margarine. t'l- 2
